Ryan Petersen

Flexport is hiring salespeople in the US, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Singapore, China, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia and probably somewhere else I forgot

@pitdesi Thought this was Bukele prison tbh

The best place to listen to Dolby Atmos music is an underground listening room called Sona in Mexico City There are no phones or talking in the space, it’s just for listening to albums all the way through on a killer sound system that you get immersed in.

Which companies win in the age of AI?

@TaraBull Ocean Spray Cranberry skateboard guy now flying himself on a homemade drone? Sci fi future is here

An Indonesian farmer in East Java is going viral for commuting to his banana plantation by drone

@MoreBirths We just need Taylor Swift to have a bunch of babies

Status is incredibly important for most people, and we strive for status perhaps more than anything else. Status helps explain the paradox that as societies become richer, fertility usually drops. Even though absolute well-being has risen, living in a wealthy society offers no increase in relative status. In fact, the status competitions of modern life, like education and career, directly compete with family life. This also tracks with how in cultures where parenthood is elevated to high status, such as among religious subgroups like the Amish, Haredi Jews and traditionalist Catholics, fertility can be much, much higher. As well, this helps explain the remarkable fertility of England and Wales during Victorian Times. Queen Victoria, the personification of the era, both inherited and carried forward a culture that conferred high-status on motherhood in raising nine children. In Korea meanwhile, the highest status people are childless, and culture is filled with every status competition but one around parenthood. The message is that we have to find a way to honor motherhood like our civilization depends on it. Mongolia helps show the way! 8/8 Follow @MoreBirths for more on the low birthrate crisis and hopeful answers to it.

Elevating the Status of Motherhood Solves Low Birthrates: The Extraordinary Case of Mongolia For 68 years, Mongolian leaders have given the Order of Maternal Glory to mothers. This raised the status of motherhood and helped forge a remarkably pronatal culture. 🧵, please share!

@benjitaylor Nailed it

Had a blast leading the new SpaceXAI identity. Excited to finally see it out in the world.

@rjonesy @loobah_l There’s a TED talk about this. I’ve noticed zero difference since changing tho

I learned this insanely late! Like 2 years ago. Most people do the loop the wrong direction… After you make one bunny ear, wrap the other lace around it from the toe-side of the ear. Not the ankle side. If done properly, the entire bow ends more linear (than the wrong direction) and stays muuuuuch better.

Hey @typesfast - what was that better shoe tie technique you had??

@sdkassis What if you you just live in a hot place ?

Air conditioning should not be treated as a normal answer to every hot day. It is an emergency tool that has been turned into a lifestyle. If we cannot function without machines cooling every room, then we have failed at housing, planning and climate responsibility.

As someone who lives in Portugal which already stops every single package you get from outside EU with no exceptions for a decade or more: I can tell you how this will go From now on if you receive a package from outside EU, it'll first go missing for weeks and nobody will know where it is, then you'll receive an email from your country's customs agency They'll make you login to some extremely unusable and outdated web portal which breaks half the time and where you have to classify your shipment in one of 10,000 confusing category codes Depending on the category code you'll pay a different tax rate, sometimes it's 5% sometimes it's 60% Then you have to pay the customs duty in some archaic way that will also be broken half the time And then you'll finally receive your package from outside EU after months Experiencing this for a few times you'll realize you will never ever try to order or receive anything from outside EU ever because the ordeal is too painful and expensive I get asked a lot here by people from US to test out new products (like the guy who made the Minimal Phone) and it's just literally impossible for me to receive it even for testing. I tried to classify it as samples for testing but you need to go through a bureaucratic process of insane lengths to get that through so I just gave up Realistically all this does is make Europeans live even more in the stone ages, as now they can't use modern AI, nor get modern products from outside EU because it'll be too much hassle to order

From today, customs duties apply to e-commerce parcels worth up to €150 entering the EU. 30 million Europeans work in retail; it's our our largest private-sector employer. And the surge in low-value online imports has put our retailers at an unfair disadvantage. Too many of these products also fail to meet EU safety standards, putting consumers at risk. Today's change is about restoring fairness for European businesses and better protecting our consumers.

>the first startup to have turned an office space into a product should we tell him

@alexrkonrad We’ve spent at hours together and you did not mention this Alex. I will never again spend more than 3 hours with any other person without mentioning this fact

@typesfast This is one of the best fun fact clubs to be a member of! Welcome

TIL the Caesar salad was invented in Tijuana. Mexican food really is the best.

Is Rippling going to eat every SaaS category?

@bk_moore Santa Monica airport is vital for national defense. Can't close it.

@typesfast Nice. Is Santa Monica Airport still closing in 2028? I know they planned on turning it into a park over building housing.

Wow JSX just added Santa Monica to Oakland service

@typesfast Thanks man! Mens 400m free finals too!

Olympic swimming tickets for LA 2028 going for $4500 each. Where do people get this kind of money? I didn’t even know swimming was popular.

@alexleesf @huskies20001 $800/ticket for one game for the 73-9 warriors was the best money we ever spent

@typesfast @huskies20001 Bro your corporation bought a box for the Warriors a decade ago.

@LarsenJensenUSA I’ll bring you if I find em!

@typesfast Dude it’s insane. Lots of people ask me if former USA Olympians get free tickets….we can’t even get them at full price! If anyone has men’s 1500m finals tickets let me know. I’d love to watch my old race!

This may be the first definitive civilizational progress I’ve experienced as an adult